The disappearance of the VO Quick Start from MacOS

By A.J. Machete, 31 October, 2018

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I'm new to this forum, but I've been a Mac user since 2009 when I bought a then new white MacBook from the same year. As far as software goes, I took it as far as Mavericks. I'm not able to constantly buy new Mac toys, so that's why it took me till now to take the plunge and buy a used 2015 MacBook Pro, which seems to be working fine so far. I'mcurrently running Mojave.

I guess I'm just curious as to when the VoiceOver Quick Start tutorial disappeared from MacOS. I tried the familiar command while VO was activated, and nothing happened. Was it moved, replaced, or eliminated altogether? Thank you all.

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By Ekaj on Friday, November 16, 2018 - 08:24

This guide still seems to be there for me. I have a mid-2013 MacBook Air and just updated to OS Mojave 10.14.1 overnight. The command to start the guide worked fine just a minute ago. I don't know why it's missing from VoiceOver help though. Perhaps this is a minor bug? It's rather interesting.

By Tyler on Friday, November 16, 2018 - 08:24

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

The command works for me too. If it isn't working for you, you may want to check your keyboard settings. Go to System Preferences > keyboard and under the keyboard tab, make sure, "Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys," is selected." If it isn't, select it and the command should work.

HTH